The fifth issue of Friends of Ukraine Network newsletter is out! We are grateful to everybody who contributes in it by sharing information with us, as well as creating ideas and holding events and actions. We try to include all your information in the newsletters, so if it has not already appeared, then it will be in next ones. So please keep the news coming. Note: most of the links here go to the Friends of Ukraine Network group in fb – please join the network to read them.

We are glad to announce a new project #FormulaOfAction. In it, we will be gathering the secrets that make actions, protests, campaigns and other actions successful. Do you have an experience of success you would like to share with other activists, or know a story that is worth spreading? Tell us! Together we can find the best formula of action. Read more about the project, Join the event on FB.

Hennadiy Afanasiev will be spending his 25th birthday on November 8 and Oleksandr Kolchenko turns 26 on November 26. You can support Afanasiev, Kolchenko, and Sentsov by writing them letters in Russian. Read more here and here

SLUSH invites Ukrainian companies to the largest Finnish startup and investor event “Slush 2015.” Discount code: KRAINEinxSLUSH015. Slush is the focal point for startups and tech talent to meet with top-tier international investors, executives and media. In 2014, Slush brought together over 14.000 attendees and more than 3500 companies for the two-day event. More than 750 investors came to Helsinki to meet startups in nearly 3.800 pre-booked meetings. Slush is a non-profit event organized by a community of entrepreneurs, investors, students and music festival organizers. Read more and register

The evening is organized under support of Ukrainian Ambassador to Spain. Its purpose is to get Spain entrepreneurs acquainted with Ukrainian culture and to establish connections with them in helping Ukrainian IDPs. Read more

InformNapalm initiative has collected evidences of Russian invasion to Ukraine. The volunteer project has prepared infographics and summaries on Russian Army presence in the East of Ukraine. Read and share the information.

For more than a year now Estonia-based NGO Vaba Ukraina (Free Ukraine) has been raising donations and supporting Ukrainian Armed Forces with life-saving first-aid equipment and organizing tactical combat casuality care (TCCC) instructor courses for Ukrainian medics. Read more

Christmas presents for Ukrainian kids who lost parents because of war in Ukraine *

United Help Ukraine (a charitable organization dedicated to supporting Ukraine and helping families of wounded or killed Ukrainian soldiers and volunteers) is starting to collect Christmas presents for Ukrainian kids who lost a parent. Join and help by sharing this info, donating or purchasing a gift! Read more

The Holodomor monument will be unveiled in Washington DC on November 7. Ukrainian communities are being invited to hold candlelight vigils worldwide. The aim of the monument is not only to honor victims of Holodomor, but also to remind the world that like Stalin, Putin wants to destroy Ukraine. Read more and watch the video

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About the Source

Anastasiia Chornohorska is the coordinator of Friends of Ukraine Network project by Euromaidan Press. She is a human rights activist and expert in social transformations. Anastasiia can be contacted at anastasiia.chornohorska (a) gmail.com or FB

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